For sure.
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I let this one get a bit more heated than I’d usually like. That’s on me. But a clip from Wargames is both fitting and a good sign for me to close out this portion of the discussion. 
Thank you all for chiming in with your thoughts but let’s try to keep it friendly. I’m going to leave the thread open if anyone else has other ideas or systems they’ve heard of to tackle the Roulette table. Even if it’s not 100% fail safe, I’m always curious to hear what kinds of tactics or even superstitions people like to employ to try and get an edge.
I know a guy
He threw a £20 bank note onto the layout after the ball was launched and announced “20, black”. It worked best when the ball hit 20, and the rest of the time he claimed he wanted to bet black.
He did get paid and dealer probably took an earlashing from the Pit Boss.
He is for sure a roulette winner in that casino because he was not allowed to play their table games again.
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Well my Original post certainly grew into a monster!
Amusing thing about the Martingale is you start with betting $1 and eventually you are betting thousands just to double that $1 (if a casino allowed it)…of course its ridiculous!
On the note of “10 reds in a row” you were arguing about, there are odds of course of placing a bet on red and doubling every time on red for 10 times in a row(I’m not a mathematician so don’t know the exact odds) but of course this is very different than the odds of red coming up 9 times and you betting on the 10th red seperately, correctly stated as about a 50% chance or so…roulette wheels have no memory!
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Here’s a good, although maths heavy, video on Martingale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTsRGQj6VT4
It figures out how likely you are to double your money, even if the house didn’t have an edge. That’s a much more fitting question to answer, because nobody really cares about what percentage of the time we’re going to win a tiny amount. Martingale turns a game where you have a 50% chance of doubling your money into one where you only have a 38% chance. Betting more than the base Martingale strategy each round is only going to make that worse, and so is the casino’s edge.
For anyone who believes that after 9 coin flips of heads in a row the tenth is a 1 in 1024 chance of being heads, here is your homework assignment.
Go to random-dot-org or whatever it’s called. Get it to generate a list 10,000 or 50,000 or 100,000 coin flips - just a list of random Hs and Ts, or 1s and 0s, or whatever you want, so long as it is boolean. Then paste the list into an excel sheet (or count them up by hand if you want) and search for every occurrence of 9 straight Hs or 9 straight Ts. Count up every time the next flip (the 10th flip) extended the streak and how many times it broke the streak.
Then come back here and tell us if the results to extend the streak were closer to 1 in 1024 or to 1 in 2. ; )
Take your time. We can wait.
in Vegas when didn’t have too much time, I would play roulette.
I would take a section of the wheel. The idea being if the ball fell in that section I score. If not, repeat. 3-4 rolls at the most. Have to memorize the numbers because the wheel doesn’t follow the mat’s sequence and you have less than 60 seconds to place your bets. So mine was the 0, then 5 numbers to the left, 5 numbers to the right. 0-2-4-9-11-14-23-26-28-30-35.
11 numbers in total. I would fill them up with $1 tokens, uneven betting and straddle adjacents.
Was sort of fun.